Tom Corbett

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett suggested Thursday that former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno should have kept his job in 2011 amid the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. "They probably shouldn't have fired him, they probably should've suspended him," Corbett told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "He probably should have been given the last three games, not on the sideline." Penn State's iconic coach was fired Nov. 9, 2011, after announcing earlier that he would retire at the end of the season. Corbett commented on the sanctions against the program after the release of emails from the NCAA that indicated the college governing body tried to...

Republican governors triumphed in key races on Tuesday in the political heavyweight states of Florida, Michigan and Wisconsin, joining the partisan tide that gave Republicans control of the U.S. Senate.
In races shaped by voters'...

Curtis Gibbs of Allentown got a break this month when he went to court for allegedly slapping state Trooper Joe Bushta's horse during Musikfest.
On the day of the hearing, Bushta was among hundreds of troopers assigned to the search for Eric Frein in the...

The survivalist charged with murdering a Pennsylvania trooper and wounding another was spotted near his old high school carrying a rifle and with mud smeared on his face, police said on Saturday, five weeks after a manhunt for the suspect began. Eric...

President Barack Obama's plan to extend health coverage to millions of poor Americans remains highly contentious, yet it is gaining momentum among several initially reluctant states where financial pragmatism is trumping ideology.
Up to a dozen states,...

Students in the Pocono Mountain School District returned to school under tight security Tuesday morning as police continued to search for Eric Frein, the survivalist and military buff accused of fatally shooting one state trooper and seriously wounding...

Shots reportedly were fired Friday night within a mile of the home of Eric Frein, and police reportedly had a house surrounded and were closing in. Northern Monroe County residents were ordered to get indoors and stay away from their windows.
Frein,...

SCRANTON — With snipers watching from the rooftops, hundreds of state troopers from Pennsylvania and as far away as Alaska converged in downtown Scranton on Thursday to mourn the death of a colleague killed in an ambush last week.
The somber funeral Mass...

A group of alumni-elected trustees condemned the Penn State board's resolution supporting settlements of lawsuits related to the football sanctions, with one trustee saying, "I don't understand why we are kowtowing to the NCAA."
At a special...

Governor Tom Corbett issued the following statement regarding the multiple stabbing incident this morning at Franklin Regional High School, Westmoreland County:
“I was shocked and saddened upon learning of the events that occurred this morning as...

PHILADELPHIA – Nearly two decades into his unparalleled rap career, Jay Z hasn’t abandoned his lofty ambitions.
In the last year, the hip-hop magnate (born Shawn Carter) jolted the album release model when he struck a multimillion-dollar deal with...

Even after his fall from grace amid the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal, Joe Paterno is still posting poll numbers most politicians would envy.
More than half of Pennsylvania voters surveyed still have a favorable opinion of Paterno, according to...

Gov. Tom Corbett stopped, took a breath, folded his hands and stared hard at the top of the podium in front of him, as if it were going to yield the answer to a question a reporter has just asked him about the sexual abuse scandal that has engulfed Penn...

Mike McQueary, the Penn State assistant football coach under fire for his reported lack of action in an alleged 2002 rape of a boy by Jerry Sandusky, said in an email to a former classmate that he stopped the assault in an athletic facility shower and...

— Sundays are usually quiet at Penn State.
Students sleep in late. The campers and tailgaters are packed up and have driven home. For a few still moments, University Park is what the brochures promise: Stately, eternal and flush with the orange of fall,...

Assistant football coach Mike McQueary has been placed on administrative leave, and fired coach Joe Paterno has hired a lawyer, the latest steps in the unfolding Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal that has rocked Penn State.
McQueary was the witness...

Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary will not coach Saturday against Nebraska due to "multiple threats" against him, the athletic department said Thursday.
Penn State interim President Rodney Erickson earlier Thursday told reporters to...

Barely 24 hours after the Penn State board of trustees pledged to launch "a full and complete investigation" into the child sex abuse scandal engulfing the university's fabled football team, the school's president and legendary coach were out....

Bowing under the weight of an escalating child sex scandal that has engulfed Penn State, university President Graham Spanier stepped down late Wednesday.
Spanier's departure ends his 15-year stint at the helm of one of the nation's largest...